Apply pressure to your baby's tummy: Some colicky babies find relief when pressure is placed on their abdomen. Place your infant face-down on your lap or upright with his tummy against your shoulder.

Newborn babies often cry when they want one of their basic needs met. Here's what to do if your newborn won't stop crying.

Before they learn to speak, babies cry to communicate. If you listen closely, your baby may be sending you clues about their needs with each sound they make. There are lots of reasons babies cry and ...

Colic is the term used to describe infants who cry excessively for no apparent reason during the first three months of life. It is one of the most distressing problems of infancy to the child and the ...

As strange as it may seem, there is no standard or accepted definition of colic, so the word means different things to different people. But perhaps the most useful definition of "colic" is recurrent ...

When Barbara Prudhomme White's second child developed colic and it persisted well past the typical end-point of three months, she extended her maternity leave three months. "I was scared to death a ...

In most cases, colic does not require medical care, nor is it a symptom of a larger medical problem. It usually improves on its own within several months. All babies cry and get fussy from time to ...

There is a type of torture that one in every 5-10 parents of a newborn baby must suffer. That torture is called colic - the phenomenon which affects newborn babies between three days and three months ...

* A North American study of 52 infants with colic shows that babies given Lactobacillus reuteri Protectis cry and fuss less compared to babies given placebo * Says newly published study is the fourth ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Mothers who smoke during or after pregnancy increase their babies' risk of developing colic, those vexing, inconsolable crying spells that affect up to 20 percent of U.S. babies in ...